I was just reading through the transcript of a local town council meeting. The issue that day was how to develop a small plot of land in town. One council member said that they should build senior housing on that plot, because seniors tend to help out the community and they don’t have kids. Kids are too expensive for the town, so we should avoid building McMansions that would attract young families. Even worse, he said, one of them could have a special needs child who would cost the town $100,000 per year.